RIC-20804_Teaching_Strategies_for_Writing_BkE_punctuation
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UNIT 9<br />
DO WE NEED IT?<br />
Our Italian escape<br />
Finally the holiday wed dreamed about was here we<br />
flew into milan and picked up our hire car dad drove<br />
remembering to keep to the right we are heading north<br />
of lake como to a little village called era we have rented a<br />
stone cottage in a chestnut grove <strong>for</strong> a week<br />
1. (a) Read ‘Our Italian escape’ with a partner. Try to read it aloud.<br />
(b) What is different about this text?<br />
(c) What effect does that have?<br />
(d) Why?<br />
(e) Was it easy to understand?<br />
2. (a) Add the missing full stops and capital letters using a red coloured pencil or pen.<br />
(b) Add one comma in the first sentence. Add another in the third sentence.<br />
(c) What other <strong>punctuation</strong> mark did you add in the first sentence?<br />
(d) How many capital letters did you add altogether?<br />
What did you need them <strong>for</strong>?<br />
3. (a) Read the text to a partner again, after adding your <strong>punctuation</strong>.<br />
(b) Did you find it easier to read this time?<br />
(c) Explain your answer.<br />
(d) Do you think your partner found it easier to understand this time?<br />
4. Write two sentences about <strong>punctuation</strong>. Is it something we need or just old-fashioned<br />
and a waste of time and ef<strong>for</strong>t?<br />
60<br />
TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR WRITING (Book E)<br />
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